Joint Chiefs Chairman: Ground Role for Troops in Iraq Likely

Though the civilian leadership in the Obama Administration is continuing to insist that they’ve ruled out a ground war in Iraq, top Pentagon brass continue to indicate the exact opposite.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey today said his “instinct at this point” is that the war will eventually require the “advisers,” US ground troops sent to Iraq, will have to engage in ground combat, particularly in the push to retake the major city of Mosul.

Gen. Dempsey went on to say that ISIS is successfully blending in to the Sunni population in towns along the outskirts of Baghdad, and that “indirect fire” from mortars and artillery against the Iraqi capital are virtually certain in the coming days.

He went on to say that last week’s decision to start using Apache helicopters in attacks on ISIS was a result of ISIS nearing Baghdad, and the US effort to try to protect the airport, saying it’s a vital US interest to keep the airport open.

Dempsey insisted he believes Mosul will be “the decisive battle” in the campaign, though other officials have indicated they don’t believe Iraq will even attempt to retake the city, ISIS’ largest, for at least a year.

17 thoughts on “Joint Chiefs Chairman: Ground Role for Troops in Iraq Likely”

Perpetual war is the agenda for this corrupt USG regime. When there is (no)
enemy, the regime creates one, (aka) ISIS. Criminals running the regime use
scare mongering to keep the American people in constant state of fear.

There was no reaction from the taxpayers after the Pentagon swindled
(us) out of (500 MILLION BUCKS) for an Afghan fighter plane project that
was eventually dumped, and sold for (32 THOUSAND BUCKS) of scrap metal.
Oboomer, on top of this latest debacle, is panhandling for his pals in the
Pentagon to get even more cash to pi** away on bogus projects.

My guess is the American people will finally have enough of this when the
USG confiscates (our) 401k retirement packages, and demand that (we) bring
in the cash we have stuffed between the mattress.

What became of the grand strategy to cripple and disable ISIS? The spineless OB is only waiting for the Laptop Bombardiers, such as Gen. Dempsey, to take the blame for sending-in the Marines. (the Generals made me do it). PS; Love that George A. Custer uniform of General Dempsey. Looks like he is ready to lead the 7th Calvary at Little Big Horn.

Either that or he is dressed to host the new Captain Kangaroo show! He's the ideal dupe for the Obama Administration to put forward while hiding behind their phony facade of being reluctant to carry out war crimes.

Dempsey is a fool. He should have told Obama that there was not way to win with air power period. He wants fire control teams there now, but who is going to re-capture all those Sunni cities? The Iraqi army can't even mount an effective defense let alone offensive operations.
The US faces a choice between an endless slow burn war, or lots of boots on the ground. Those boots will be fighting street by street where technology and training count for almost nothing. ISIS knows this, and probably knows some thing about Stalingrad too. The only choice left is to ally with the Shia militias and pretend not to notice the slaughter. Another fine mess…

The interesting part of all this is: the first mistake has lade to the second one and then another one and in last 60 years of USG wars with rest of the world have come to fight saudis barbarians. In another word, these wars for American style "democracy" going backward and is yet to produce any democracy anywhere.

The problem with the war in Syria and Iraq is that: ISIS been presented as a terrorist group, ISIS actually consist of Jordan, Saudis, Qatari and other CCG country military force, or if you will, ISIS is the fifth Saudis colum of mercenaries and they need to be eliminated and by all means. In the other hand, Iranians, Syrians and Iraqi government are the suitable candidate for the job. ISIS is not a terrorist group, as those which created the 911 and from Saudi Arabia, ISIS is a military force occupying Iraq and Syria and they are the fifth (solders) column military force from CCG countries, and have training in Turkey by the CCG, Jordanian, Turkish army officers. 70% of these mercinaris are from CCG.

This is an example of how the military has taken over the civilian leadership of the country. What Gen. Dempsey is demonstrating is insubordination. The job of the military is to carry out orders, not to implement policy.
If civilians were in charge in Washington, and if a top military officer were to publicly speak out on policy differences like Gen. Dempsey is doing, he would be severely disciplined or sacked.
Because he seems to be unafraid to be publicly insubordinate, that to me is proof that the military rules this country.

This is an example of how the military has taken over the civilian leadership of the country. What Gen. Dempsey is demonstrating is insubordination. The job of the military is to carry out orders, not to implement policy.
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Exactly correct, I have long said the civilian government is not in charge at all. This makes it obvious. That and Clapper lying to Congress and they do absolutely nothing.

Hard to believe that we have another chief of staff as ludicrous as former chief of staff General Myers was. Who digs up these self-serving, fawning, sycophants any way? I don't know Gen Dempsey's war record but I assume that it is distinguished and that he personally is very courageous. But even if that is the case, there is a huge difference between courage on the battlefield and moral courage. Whatever he once was, gen. Dempsey is now nothing more than a gofer.

An air war is about the most inaccurate way to kill civilians know to man, just spread a little camouflage around and an airborne killer is at a total lose as to who he is sending to the promised land. Surely, for if we don’t quick send in a full complement of combat elements, artillery, tanks and ground troops, it’s either start the carpet bombing slaughter or vacate the war.